Sentences with phrase «number by a large amount»

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By the midway point of the gala, more than $ 3 million had been raised to support the efforts in Haiti, though the fundraising continued throughout the night toward what will amount to a larger number in the millions.

By choosing to include the number of donors and the amounts of some of its larger donations, including one of $ 10.1 million in the first year and another of $ 10.1 million in the last seven months of 2011, the group was somewhat more transparent than the IRS requires.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Crowdfunding — the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people — has grown in popularity since the launch of Kickstarter.com in 2009.

Conversely, absent the tax payment, the number of shares received in each award would be larger by an amount equal in value to the forgone tax payment, thereby having a dilutive effect on our shareowners» equity interest in FedEx.

Absent the tax payment, the number of shares received in each award would be larger by an amount equal in value to the forgone tax payment, thereby having a dilutive effect on our stockholders» equity interest in FedEx.

However, February's outsized rise may have been enhanced by unseasonably warm weather, with the number of additional construction jobs rising by the largest amount in several years.

Number of solar panels so far installed by SolarCity (the largest solar provider in the US) 18 hours Amount of hours Elon Musk is said to work each day

The lack of emphasis on a single religion does not stop Disney from taking up a catechizing role, Pinsky notes, «In the Western world in particular, the number of hours children spend receiving moral instruction in houses of worship is dwarfed by the amount of time spent sitting in front of screens large and small, learning values from Disney movies,» Disney's evangelistic entrepreneurship has been extraordinarily successful.

Just type down the word «religion, jesus, god» in the CNN search box and you will find a large number of articles with pages of commentaries made by atheists using name calling toward a small amount of religious people compare to atheists who are posting.

You can search the largest bibliography on the subject of Capsicums by going to The Chile Pepper Institute site at www.chilepepperinstitute.org Sunlight and UV levels vary due to a number of factors, including cloudiness (think Seattle), elevation (think Denver), and the amount of humidity in the air (think Florida).

USC does a fair amount of that, but also regularly takes advantage of college rules and tactics by including a large number of RPOs and using Darnold's size and athleticism in the QB run game.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

Moreover, while moratoria on executions should be welcomed, if they are not accompanied by a change in judicial practice, long - term moratoria result in a large number of people languishing on «death row», a condition which may amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

«The NYPD is already subject to a large amount of oversight by a number of different entities at the city, state and federal levels, and there is no need,» he said.

«Ransomware operators ultimately direct bitcoin to a central account that they cash out periodically, and by injecting a little bit of our own money into the larger flow we could identify those central accounts, see the other payments flowing in, and begin to understand the number of victims and the amount of money being collected,» McCoy said.

• Previous research by Zak and his colleagues suggests that because estrogen increases the number of oxytocin receptors, in countries where people consume larger amounts of plant - based estrogens (found in foods such as nuts, soy products, and legumes), average trust levels are higher.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

A «job» in this context is a request to process a certain amount of data — turning the information produced by the detector in a given time period into the images, say, or scanning over some large number of these images for analysis.

However, by judiciously increasing the amount of noise and carefully correlating it across queries, the system can maintain privacy protection, even in the face of very large number of questions.

The Agrobacterium tumefaciens - based system is a robust platform to either rapidly produce up to mg - amounts of recombinant proteins or to compare larger numbers of different vaccine constructs in a screening approach preferentially by transient expression in N. benthamiana plants.

This can be caused by a number of things, from having a deficient amount of enzymes needed to break down specific carbohydrates, fats or proteins which lead to improper digestion and undigested food in the large intestines which results in gas production and bloating.

Addressing these concerns is particularly important given that academy trusts are educating increasing numbers of children and handling large amounts of public money, according to a report on academy trust finances published by the committee today.

There's no doubt that teachers and parents prefer smaller classes, but what would the impact on student learning be of increasing class size by this modest amount in order to make a large increase in the number of days students spend in school?

With this strategy, teachers can raise money for a wide variety of projects by collecting relatively small amounts of money from a large number of people, usually leveraging the help of a website designed for the purpose.

(B)(i) that such unit shall be located at an organizational level and shall have an organizational status within such State agency comparable to that of other major organizational units of such agency, or (ii) in the case of an agency described in clause (1)(B)(ii), either that such unit shall be so located and have such status, or that the director of such unit shall be the executive officer of such State agency; except that, in the case of a State which has designated only one State agency pursuant to clause (1) of this subsection, such State may, if it so desires, assign responsibility for the part of the plan under which vocational REHABILITATION services are provided for the blind to one organizational unit of such agency, and assign responsibility for the rest of the plan to another organizational unit of such agency, with the provisions of this clause applying separately to each of such units; provide for financial participation by the State, or if the State so elects, by the State and local agencies to meet the amount of the non - Federal share; provide that the plan shall be in effect in all political subdivisions, except that in the case of any activity which, in the judgment of the Secretary, is likely to assist in promoting the vocational REHABILITATION of substantially larger numbers of handicapped individuals or groups of handicapped individuals the Secretary may waive compliance with the requirement herein that the plan be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State to the extent and for such period as may be provided in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, but only if the non - Federal share of the * cost of such vocational REHABILITATION services is met from funds made available by a local agency (including, to the extent permitted by such regulations, funds contributed to such agency by a private agency, organization, or individual);

The number of bars in the kidney grille has been reduced from 10 to nine, and the larger openings are an indication of the amount of cooling air required by the powerful engines.

the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.

Even this larger number amounts to less than 1 percent of the membership in the LDS Church worldwide, but all the same, leaders of the mainstream church are extremely discomfited by these legions of polygamous brethren.

But, here's my point: the «new newsstand» doesn't really seem to work for drawing in new customers, and though I wouldn't be surprised if we've tripled or better the number of eyes being exposed to comics just by being in those large generalist book chains, it doesn't appear that this brought an equivalent amount of sales.

The main benefits of Americash Advanced include the greater number of services offered, the larger cash advance offered amounts and the more flexible repayment terms that are not offered by most other online cash advance lenders.

Some of the benefits offerer by 123 Cash Credit includes a greater number of services, larger loan amounts and more flexible repayment terms.

Jobless claims rise by largest amount in 3 months By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-- The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three monthby largest amount in 3 months By MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-- The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three monthBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP)-- The number of people filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week by the largest amount in three monthby the largest amount in three months.

In most of those years the (concentrated) value strategy will under - perform, and in a small number it will out perform by large amounts.

This intake comes at a time of year when resources are already stretched by the large number of kittens in the Society's care and the amount of injured wildlife needing the Society's support.

Many of the largest card issuers, such as Discover, American Express, Citi and J.P. Morgan Chase, have also cut back on the number of interest - free teasers they mailed by a significant amount, CreditSuisse found.

The popularity of Hol Chan Marine Reserve and Shark Ray Alley are due to the close proximity of San Pedro, the large amount of fish life found with the Hol Chan «cut» accessible by snorkelers and beginning divers, the diversity of marine life encountered throughout the 4 zones of the park and the exitement and novelty of swimming with large numbers of nurse sharks and sting rays.

Thus there is a large amount of LW absorbed by the atmosphere (around 150 W / m2)-- a number that would be zero in the absence of any greenhouse substances.

Further complicating the use of these proxies is the fact that the deviation in oxygen - 18 ratios is affected by the amount of TC rainfall, the distance from the center of the cyclone at which the rain was produced, and the intensity of the cyclone — so I doubt these proxies alone will enable disentangling intensity and rainfall, tnough a large number of samples over an area could reveal information about the track and extent of the TC event.

A large number of installations emitting relatively low amounts of CO2 are currently covered by the ETS and concerns have been raised over the cost - effectiveness of their inclusion.

Many of the mechanisms are like that — the tides, the direct inductive heating, the heating caused by the days influx of falling meteorites — which incidentally is far greater than the rate of heat loss through outgassing, as meteoric dust and matter infalls at an average rate of at least millimeters per decade, from my own direct measurements — they have «impressively» large amounts of annual energy associated with them, right up to where you divide by the surface area of the earth and the number of seconds in a year.

We use them because unaided common sense tends to make errors, or have difficulty in processing large amounts of information, just as we use formal methods for doing arithmetic because guessing numbers by eye or counting on our fingers is error prone, and is anyway infeasible for large numbers.

The events of 911 and its official (almost exclusively government) story, on the other hand, have undergone nowhere near the same amount of scrutiny by mainstream scientists and engineers, which leaves a large number of important questions unanswered.

BTW, I have been known to miscount decimal places, so I wouldn't bet a large amount that these numbers aren't off by a factor of ten — YMMV, and one [Alistair & Nigel] would learn a lot by checking these estimates with other numbers — e.g. the TOA insolation is ~ 344 W / m ^ 2; starting there, do my numbers still make sense?

Defined as the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people (aka a crowd), popular and well - known platforms for this model include IndieGoGo, Kickstarter and GoFundMe.

As products have generally become more complex and sophisticated, and the number of large damage amounts being awarded by juries have grown, the courts have brought a heightened focus to light on these issues.

Such a huge amount of packages requires a lot of shipping power and, by extension, a lot of large trucks with large loads logging huge numbers of miles across the nation each day.

Anthony Isaacs, president of the SDT, says a considerable burden had been placed on the tribunal over the past year, due to the length and complexity of a substantial number of cases that involved a large amount of documentary evidence, with the majority of the weight being felt by clerks.

The data published by the Central Statistics Office asserted that a large number of Irish citizens had taken business trips last year, amounting to about 6.8 million people.

These loyalty discounts are offered by a large number of different insurers, and they can help you save a decent amount of money on your policy.